By David Reevely, The Ottawa Citizen, February 17, 2015
The billion-dollar decision to scrap plans for two gas-fired energy plants near
Toronto was nobody’s fault, really. Unless it was everybody’s. Look, mistakes
were made and there’s lots of blame to go around. So says the official report on
the matter from the Ontario legislature’s justice committee, released Tuesday.
This is the business that dominated Queen’s Park for well over a year. What did
then-premier Dalton McGuinty and his staff know about the price of cancelling
the plants in Oakville and Mississauga before the 2011 election, and when? What
was McGuinty’s chief of staff, David Livingston, thinking, if, as is alleged by
the OPP in their investigation, he had the boyfriend of one of his subordinates
go through government computers to wipe out masses of emails? via
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